Posted on Apr 30, 2018

Louisiana Purchase - Wikipedia

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This is the anniversary of two important related events.
"1803--The United States doubles in size through the Louisiana Purchase, which was sold by France for $15 million.

1812--Louisiana is admitted into the Union as a state."

(Incidently, as a result of the Louisiana Purchase, my family became early pioneers of Missouri.)

Louisiana Purchase - Wikipedia

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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen

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Kind of hard to imagine what it was like for a country to double its size in the world these days. Truly remarkable when you think of all the other history that came about because of this land purchase.

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SGT (Join to see)

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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Think about our purchase of Alaska from Russia for a mere $7,000,000 about fifty years later in 1867. All of our wealth gotten from there was surely not a folly (think Seward).

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SGT (Join to see)

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SSG Jason Werstak - That truly is amazing. It would be hard to imagine what the world could look like now.

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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen

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Yes that was another great purchase but think the Louisiana one was more significant to the country as we know it today. Alaska brought many things but wasn't as significant in the shaping and culture of the US that we have today.

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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen

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SSG Jason Werstak Not the historian that SGT (Join to see) is, but think that the Sewards Folly title that this purchase was given pretty well summarizes what the Russians (And some of US) thought they were giving up. They needed money and thought they were selling worthless land to the US. What came to be strategic importance a hundred years later was far from the Russian minds.

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